Catalogue description COLD OVERTON (LEICS.)

This record is held by Berkeley Castle Muniments

Details of BCM/D/5/36
Reference: BCM/D/5/36
Title: COLD OVERTON (LEICS.)
Held by: Berkeley Castle Muniments, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1233 Henry III confirmed grants to Stephen (I) de Segrave by John FitzGeoffrey, John de Grey, Geoffrey de Bagpuize, and Jocelin de [Hautrive]: John de Grey had granted 31 virgates and 13s. rent and, separately, a capital messuage, with a garden, meadow and 5 virgates of land, which he held for his life of Stephen de Meisnell, who later granted the reversion to Stephen and quitclaimed the holding along with the advowson; Geoffrey de Bakepuiz had granted 4 virgates with the services of the tenants, and Jocelin and Isabel his wife had granted another 4 virgates; both were held of Stephen de Meisnell, who confirmed the grants. [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 17.] In 1295 the Segrave holding was described as 2 carucates of land; by 1325 it was called a manor, and by then it was closely associated with the holding at Somerby and later with that at Pickwell. All three were granted to the young John de Segrave in 1334. By Dec. 1343 they had been granted to his brother Stephen for life, when the reversion was settled on Margaret Marshal in jointure, and on her death in 1399 Cold Overton was valued at £34. It was one of the five principal Leicestershire manors. It was part of the agreed jointure of the duchess Elizabeth in 1476, when the park was held by the duchess Katherine, and the reversion was granted by William Berkeley to his feoffees Edward Willoughby and Robert Logge, who in 1489 granted the reversion, along with that of Great Dalby to someone whose name is illegible: below, BCM/D/6/1/4-5 [GC 4462-3].

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